"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.“


-Quincy Jones

posted in home


I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day."

-Quincy Jones

societyView Quote
"If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture."

-Quincy Jones

musicView Quote
"Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release."

-Quincy Jones

moviesView Quote
"Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country."

-Quincy Jones

foodView Quote
"If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."

-Quincy Jones

experienceView Quote
"I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs."

-Quincy Jones

carView Quote

More Quotes About home

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way."

-Ray Dalio

homeView Quote
"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."

-Chris O'Donnell

homeView Quote
"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

-Sherman Alexie

homeView Quote
"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."

-Malcolm Turnbull

homeView Quote
"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."

-Thom Yorke

homeView Quote
"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."

-Melinda Gates

homeView Quote